Takashi Miike 3:19 Sat Feb 24Re: ⚽ Liverpool v West Ham - Official Match Thread 5-4-1, with Antonio & the Pea available from the bench. seems sensible but it does worry me that Moyes may be thinking of parking the bus

A couple of mentions of a midfield three on here, but I don't think we played a three. It was Kouyate and Noble as a pair, with Mario and Lanzini playing inside left and right in what was basically a 5-4-1.

PD I am not saying we should write the game off, but with an ageing defence what can we really expect?Against some Mickey Mouse sides we can get away with it but not the pace that Liverpool have.I think Moyes has inherited some pretty poor players and as someone said our midfield three are not going to stop anybody.99% of the Posters on here have been crying out for a top Defensive Midfielder but lets not go there with these owners.Roll on Saturday................

Couple of points from the visit to Anfield yesterday, the stadium is magnificent, but if you are complaining about getting a beer at the OS then you definitely wouldn't be happy at Anfield took nearly 10 minutes to get to the concourse and it's tiny compared to ours. What was a nice touch was all the staff serving at the drink and food bars wore the West Ham Bobby Moore T shirts. The crowd were very quiet maybe they have become complacent and feel they only need to cheer when they score.

Spot on with that, we shouldn’t be writing these games off, they’re back four can be got at.

Bad line up from the start, lanzini should have started on the bench after being out for a while and starting Evra away that Anfield against that forward line for he’s first game in months was wrong. Don’t think Moyes is happy with any of the defence tbf, hopefully be big changes if he stays on

Mario noble and lanzini in central midfield ain't gonna stop anyone and kyoute wide right didn't stop Robertson once. So all in all a very lightweight midfield. Trying to put lanzini and mario in the midfield will cost us and if Moyes is frightened to drop one of them will prove expensive. But lucky we had evra and zabaleta bombing up the line to help out

Carters - Agree with all that, but a lot of lesser sides have got something at Anfield in recent years, numerous times in fact. WBA won there just weeks back and we hadn't lost there in our last 3 visits. So I don't go along with the principal that it's okay just to write these games off.

Liverpool's side must have cost circa 350m Plus,West Ham Utd.70m.It's not rocket science to see where are problem is.Moyes,IMO outstanding Manager and backroom Staff.Players who should not be out there.Zabaleta,Collins, Evra too old too slow.Cresswell is not a centre back,in fact he's not a left back, going forward maybe but, defensively??Reid,injury prone.Noble, Kouyate and Mario overrun and simply not good enough to take on top teams.That said what did we expect at Anfield./As someone said on here earlier in the week after Font'e departure its going to be an interesting Summer.

Pagey - Mario is 'class'? I suppose 'class' is a vague term, but let's assume you mean he's a top player. Well he's not. He may be capable of a few nice touches and appear to have time on the ball, but when you are playing in the middle of the park at this level then you need much more about you than just that. His all round game is poor. Popping up every 15 minutes or so with a nice touch or 2 is nowhere near what is required. End of.